Category: God Notes
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A Quote from Richard Dawkins
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. – Richard Dawkins You could equally say the same about some current…
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Bishop Carl Cooper Has Resigned
It was reported on Tuesday (29.04.08) that Bishop Carl Cooper has resigned after days of speculation. His resignation comes after allegations of inpropriety with his Chaplin, Mrs. Mandy Williams-Potter. The news was reported to the Clergy early Tuesday Morning, and broken on the early morning news. A statement from the Church in Wales says: The…
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XFCE4 – Quick and Pretty (Gnome killer?)
Ubuntu’s default install of XFCE 4 first gives you the impression that you’ve forgotten to change sessions (using the “options” button on the log-in screen, and then choose “Change Session”). However it’s quicker, more lightweight, and definately more user-friendly to those of us running on older hardware, though of course, you can change all that.…
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A Jewish view on Homosexuality
It’s strange what you find when your not looking, isn’t it? The argument over Homosexuality in Religion has been a thorny one. While looking for something completely different that may well become the subject of it’s very own post at some point later, I found this article from a site called “jewishanswers”. This site is…
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Search the bible, and get it explained
A quick note about this piece of software that Rosslyn found for me. It’s a piece of software that allows you to search the bible (differing versions), and get translations, and original meanings of words. It appears to be designed for Vicars, or I suppose as it’s american software, Ministers. At first glance it appears…
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Bishop Carl Cooper and Revd. Mandy Williams Potter to take Leave of Absence
article in need of tidying (The Times Online Article here:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3537404.ece) Questions about the inapropriate relationship that the Bishop Carl may or may not have had with his Communications Officer have hit the mainstream press. The incident started when Bishop Carl had to make the unhapppy announcement that he and his wife of 25 years, Joy,…
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The Bible Translation into Welsh (and other Languages)
http://www.llgc.org.uk/big/Chapter1.htm I found this while trying to find a welsh translation of the Bible. For the upcoming funeral of Dr. Joseph Brown of Llangollen, I have the honour of giving a reading from Isiah 25, verses 6-9. I am to give this reading in both Welsh, and English. During my search I came across this…
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Second Meeting with the Warden Of Ordinands
This is a Stub, designed to record as much as I can remember, for review So, today I had my second meeting with the Warden Of Ordinands. There are a few things that I probably should mentions first. This is not the same person as the last one I met, and this one was armed…
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Critically teaching children should benefit Christianity
do you like me new eye-catching titles? A thought occours. Surely, as a right-thinking Christian (Please, Atheists, don’t rant about the idea that you can’t have a right-thinking religious anything, and just follow the train of thought), the best thing you can do for your child is to ensure that they have a full, and…
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This is Intolerable!
http://loltheist.com No! No! No! No! They must be punished! Burned! Hurt in many evil ways. Lolspeak is not an acceptable form of entertainment. Not now, not ever. Anyone know where I can get a cross in Oak? BX.
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Judge Rules against Couple for Being Atheist
They HAVE to be stopped! http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,877155,00.html There comes a time when Religion has gone too far. This is it. A Judge ruling that people are not allowed to adopt because they don’t belive in a Supreeme Being. You what? Especially being as the argument is that they may stop their adopted Daughter from beleiving in…
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Pope Fails on Excorsism
http://www.catholicherald.com/cns/exorcism.htm It has been much in the news this past few weeks, that the pope has decided to create “Excorcism Squads”. These “squads” are meant to hunt out the “Evil” influence in the world. The above link is a link to the pope failing to excorsise a young girl. During the Excorsism, the pope is…
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Not a Religious Experiance; Just Psychosis
Reuters The above article notes that some of those claiming to have religious experiences in Jerusalem, are actually suffering from Psychosis. Their visit to Jerusalem highlights this psychosis, and they report seeing visions of the Messiah, or other People from the Bible. I wonder if it happens in Mecca? ~BX
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The Lord is My Shepheard.
The Lord and I are in a sheep-shepherd relationship, and I am in a position of negative need. He prostrates me in a green-belt grazing area. He conducts me directionally parallel to non-torrential aqueous liquid. He returns to original satisfaction levels my psychological makeup. He switches me on to a positive behavioral format for maximal…
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In Answer to “Christians Dating a Non-Christian”
This picture haahaeu4.jpg Effectively answers this: http://blog.valhalla.jara23.co.uk/~mrc/wordpress/?p=15 Here, MRC, the author of the blog tries to work out why some Christians get off with sites like this: http://www.fusion101.com/guide/dating_non_christians.htm Basically, working on one line, 2 Corinthians 6:14, they try to claim that you should not marry, or even, in this case, date a “pagan” (here taken…